Academic Studies Press, 2019. — 224 p. A distinct Anglo-Jewish identity developed in Britain between 1840 and 1880. Over the course of these forty years, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The multifaceted growth and change in communal institutional and religious structures and habits, as well as the community’s...
Cornell University Press, 1995. — 264 p. While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 447 p. A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen. Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday...
Routledge, 1998. — 320 p. Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great...
New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2011. — 127 p. — (Milestones in Modern World History) — ISBN-10: 1604134984; ISBN-13: 978-1604134988. The Great Exhibition Britain Before the Industrial Revolution The Capitalist and Consumer Revolutions The Revolution in Farming The Textile Revolution The Age of Iron and Steam The Rise of the Industrial City The Demand for Reforms An...
New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2011. — 127 p. — (Milestones in Modern World History) — ISBN-10: 1604134984; ISBN-13: 978-1604134988. The Great Exhibition Britain Before the Industrial Revolution The Capitalist and Consumer Revolutions The Revolution in Farming The Textile Revolution The Age of Iron and Steam The Rise of the Industrial City The Demand for Reforms An...
Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. This title was first published in 2000. 'Little better documented than King Arthur or Robin Hood' complained one historian in 1998 describing the lack of information on Thames shipbuilding. This study of iron shipbuilding on the capital's river fills this noticeable gap. A.J. Arnold examines the initial domination of the iron shipbuilding trade by...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 304 p. Edward Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie," was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London society, Europe, and the stately homes of England in the second...
Thistle Publishing, 2014. — 394 p. It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love — his `official' mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick and Alice Keppel. In their different ways, all three were exceptional personalities; Lillie Langtry, the socially ambitious girl from the vicarage, became a famous actress; Daisy Warwick, an immensely...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 312 p. — (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly a century off, religion still infused all ways of elite knowing, and even those who denied its relevance had to work extremely hard...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 228 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in schools and universities were improving, there were few fellowships or chances of paid employment in the sciences. Excluded from...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 188 p. Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition (Weltausstellung) of 1873. The exhibition covered a vast spectrum of human endeavour and achievement. The British involvement encompassed not only the national submission but also the British individuals who visited and contributed to the displays....
Continuum, 2017. — 248 p. In a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion, this book offers a rare long-term specialist perspective...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 - 256 p. ISBN10: 1403997020 ISBN13: 9781403997029 (eng)
The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of "the Jew" pauper/capitalist, separatist/impostor, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. Going beyond the racial or cultural dimensions of fin de siecle semitic...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 272 p. Whenever vessels have foundered off the coasts of Britain, there have always been those willing to give their all to save those in peril. But in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. He believed that many more lives could be saved by the establishment of a national, organised rescue...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, 'God and Progress' offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in 19th-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progressive ideas of history transformed British Protestant...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 300 p. Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 300 p. Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 435 p. A major new study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Eugenio Biagini argues that between 1876 and 1906 the crisis of public conscience caused by the Home Rule debate acted as the main catalyst in the remaking of popular radicalism. This was not only because of Ireland’s intrinsic...
Amberley Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Life, society, family, economy, and politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist. Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 320 p. Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.
Signal Books, 2011. — 182 p. The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became.The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871),...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 244 p. In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 284 p. For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However,...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 284 p. For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However,...
Collins, 1975. — 410 p. This is the story of King Edward VII's diplomatic efforts as Prince of Wales and King of England. As the eldest son of Queen Victoria, Edward VII had to wait nearly 60 years before inheriting the crown in 1901, and his reign was a short one of only nine years. Nevertheless he had an outsized impact on the fate of Britain and of Europe as a whole. Edward...
Routledge, 2020. — 304 p. First published in 1985. The essays in this book pull together the diverse strands of research to give a comprehensive picture of the Labour Party, which strived to carve out for itself a niche within an existing political framework. The first part of the book examines the composition, the national, local and regional organisation of the party, and its...
Allen Lane, 2017. — 624 p. To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one....
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 288 p. Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through which order was maintained. This book...
Routledge, 2018. — 325 p. First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author’s belief that there was a need for a positive effort to re-create the legion of inspired and untiring propagandists for Socialism whose work made the Labour Party possible. This title will be of interest to scholars and...
The History Press, 2013. — 224 p. Based on original research and using much hitherto unpublished material, 'Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen' tells the full, extraordinary story of Dew's life, from his humble beginnings as a seed merchant's clerk to chief inspector at Scotland Yard in charge of the most celebrated murder investigation of the 20th century. His name was...
Pen and Sword History, 2016. — 192 p. A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. The...
Routledge, 2005. — 352 pages. — ISBN: 0415359694
"The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914" is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian era. Arranged in four key sections – political; social and religious; economic; and foreign affairs, defence and empire – this clear and concise book provides a...
Routledge, 2005. — 352 p. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian era. Arranged in four key sections – political; social and religious; economic; and foreign affairs, defence and empire – this clear and concise book provides a comprehensive guide to modern...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 276 p. The 100 years from 1819-1919 were the most remarkable in the history of womankind. In 1819 women had no rights, no status, no options, no votes. Females were denied higher and further education. Job opportunities were menial and few. Legally, women were not even considered to be ‘persons.' By 1919 they had achieved full legal rights and...
Routledge, 2014. — 314 р. This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic and social structure. Britain is set firmly in the...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 302 p. In Georgian England, few men were more fashionable or more eligible than George, Prince of Wales. Wild, glamorous, and with a penchant for beautiful women, the heir to George III’s throne was a very good catch – or so it seemed. The two women who married him might beg to differ. Maria Fitzherbert was a twice-widowed Roman Catholic with a...
Pluto Press, 2023. — 336 p. New insights into one of the most important episodes in British labour history. The Labour Revolt that swept Britain in the early 20th century was one of the most sustained, dramatic, and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experienced. It involved large-scale strikes by miners, seamen, dockers, railway...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 224 р. Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume places Mary back into the political position she occupied and offers the first dedicated account of her career. Based on extensive archival research, including hitherto neglected or lost...
Manchester University Press, 2001. — 256 p. Victorian Britain was fascinated by the Arctic and the accounts of its exploration. This is the first book to draw upon recent developments in representational theory and apply them to the Arctic. The imagined Arctic was the product of a surprising variety of representations, and in this book the author has roamed across travel...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 224 p. Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency...
Frontline Books, 2023. — 232 p. As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy. This was not the first time the Greys had drawn their swords during the Napoleonic Wars – but it was their first against Napoleon’s troops. Three years...
Liverpool University Press, 2013. — 257 p. The political diaspora played a major part in the history of the international anarchist movement: in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries hundreds of militants, escaping from domestic persecution and following their internationalist ideals, took the path of exile and established colonies in European and non-European...
Head of Zeus, 2014. — 305 p. The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce. Behind her...
Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1845. — 358 S. Einleitung. Das industrielle Proletariat. Die großen Städte. Die Konkurrenz. Die irische Einwandemng. Resultate. Die einzelnen Arbeitszweige. Die Fabrikarbeiter im engeren Sinne. Die übrigen ArbeitSzweige. Arbeiterbewegungen. DaS Bergwerks-Proletariat. DaS Ackerbau - Proletariat. Dir Stellung der Bourgeoisie zum Proletariat.
Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1845. — 358 S. Einleitung. Das industrielle Proletariat. Die großen Städte. Die Konkurrenz. Die irische Einwandemng. Resultate. Die einzelnen Arbeitszweige. Die Fabrikarbeiter im engeren Sinne. Die übrigen ArbeitSzweige. Arbeiterbewegungen. DaS Bergwerks-Proletariat. DaS Ackerbau - Proletariat. Dir Stellung der Bourgeoisie zum Proletariat.
4th Edition. — Routledge, 2019. — 648 p. In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world’s first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of...
Routledge, 2014. — 568 p. In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners, but the world over which they presided had been utterly transformed. It was an era of revolutionary...
New York: W.W. Norton, 1981. - 256 pgs.
This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 192 p. This book takes an entertaining peek at the secrets and scandals of Regency Britain, a period in which the heir to the throne was making merry with his mistress whilst his ailing father attempted to keep a grip on both his crown and his finances. From Princess Caraboo to the Peterloo Massacre, the Regency was a period of immense upheaval in...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 144 p. Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour, and the ways in which these attitudes were often determined by those in positions of power and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. — 570 p. Inside the Victorian Home - A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders is almost criminal in its housebreaking, burglarizing, second-story genius. The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 367 p. This book reveals the relevance of the Victorian economy as a model for contemporary society by using quantitative methods to explain its true nature and performance. The essays, covering the period 1870-1914, are of three types: some establish accepted conclusions more firmly by deploying new evidence or methods; others deal with...
New York: PublicAffairs, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1610393317; ISBN13: 9781610393317. Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession of William IV, is...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 252 p. While the Victorian era captivates many today, much of what people believe about the Victorian world is actually false. This book looks at nine specific myths about Victorian Britain, explaining how the myths perpetuated and then showing why they are inaccurate. Coverage spans 1830-1914, from shortly before Victoria's reign to World War I. The book is...
Harvard University Press, 1984. — 282 p. Less cynical than Talleyrand, more imaginative than Metternich, as creative as Guizot, Lord Liverpool was one of the great European conservatives of his age. He served as prime minister for the longest continuous term in nineteenth-century Britain and presided over the triumphant years of the Napoleonic War, the strife-torn era of the...
Faber and Faber, 2011. — 716 p. Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, beginning with Mr Secretary Peel. As Gash puts it...
Faber and Faber, 2011. — 743 p. Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - "Mr Secretary Peel" (1961) and "Sir Robert Peel "(1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of nineteenth-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print. In this second volume, Gash focuses on...
Duckworth, 1978. — 398 p. A serious study of flogging and flagellation in English Victorian society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali. The writer goes through the methods of punishments in public schools, borstals, the army and the navy and makes a survey of Victorian and modern flagellant pornography. He manage to prove the strong...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 320 p. Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. In Sound Authorities , Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to...
A Record of the Development and Present Composition of the Military Forces and Their Duties in Peace and War. — London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Habbison and Sons, St. Martin’s Lane, 1893. — 650 р. The purpose of the Army Book is to give to all its readers a comprehensive knowledge of the British army and military system. With this object in view, a...
Liveright, 2015. — 480 p. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as...
London ; New York: Routledge, 1995-1996. — 426 p. — ISBN 0-203-98554-0 "The Crisis of Conservatism" offers a powerful new interpretation of Conservative party history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It locates the seeds of their electoral failure in their inability to manage transitions in the areas of class, imperialism, economics, property, and the rise...
New edition — I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 896 p. Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 312 p. From its introduction to British society in the mid-17th century champagne has been a wine of elite celebration and hedonism. Champagne in Britain, 1800-1914 is the first book for over a decade to study this iconic drink in Britain. Following the British wine market from 1800 to 1914, Harding shows how champagne was consumed by, branded for...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 255 p. Elijah Dixon played a key role in the Blanketeer's March of 1817. Arrested, chained in double irons and imprisoned without trial, the episode set the stage for the Peterloo Massacre. Everybody in Victorian Manchester knew of Elijah Dixon. Over a period of sixty years, he was an ever-present force in the tumultuous politics of the town. He...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 538 p. Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics, heading the Conservative party for twenty-two years from 1846 to 1868. He abolished slavery in the British Empire, established a national system of education in Ireland, was a prominent...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 546 p. Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics, heading the Conservative party for twenty-two years from 1846 to 1868. He abolished slavery in the British Empire, established a national system of education in Ireland, was a prominent...
State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2009. — 262 p. — (Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century). Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era into a period of decline. Single women were nearing middle age at thirty, and mothers in their...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 176 p. Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad.' In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, whose clogs clattered 'like a hailstorm' as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 305 p. This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the ‘small wars’ of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Encompassing a protracted timeframe and embracing disparate social, political and cultural contexts, it...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 227 p. In Dark Days of Georgian Britain, James Hobson challenges the long established view of high society during the Regency, and instead details an account of a society in change. Often upheld as a period of elegance with many achievements in the fine arts and architecture, the Regency era also encompassed a time of great social, political and...
Lutterworth Press, 2020. — 452 p. Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from 'arch-mediocrity' and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 259 p. Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree.
Routledge, 2017. — 262 p. This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities. Each chapter is linked by common themes and questions, and the topics described in detail range from popular forms of rural crime and protest, through crime in industrial and...
Amberley, 2015. — 272 p. From traditional seaside holiday treats like candy floss, ice cream and fish 'n' chips, to the British fascination for cooking and baking, the Victorian era has shaped British culinary heritage. Victoria's austere attitude after an age of Regency indulgence generated enormous cultural change. Excess and gluttony were replaced with rigid tradition and...
Boydell Press, 2013. — 224 p. Historians have long recognised the importance of child health during the Industrial Revolution, but few have explored the health of working children in any analytical detail. In this comprehensive study, Peter Kirby places the occupational health of employed children within a broad context of social, industrial and environmental change during the...
Penguin, 2016. — 112 p. William IV, 'the Sailor King' (who ruled England in 1830-1837), is best known for his naval career and for living for 20 years with the actress Mrs. Jordan, with whom he had 10 children. Knight's book shows that William was pretty much a disaster in whatever field he found himself.
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 224 p. Profiles of twelve trailblazing Regency Era women—from Jane Austen to Madame Tussaud—who took charge of their destinies and changed the world. In the nineteenth century, women faced challenges and constraints that many of us would find shocking by today's standards. What Regency Women Did for Us tells the inspirational stories of twelve women...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 419 p. In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 340 p. The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better forgotten. In The Crimean War and its Afterlife Lara Kriegel sets out to rescue the Crimean War from the shadows. Kriegel offers a fresh account of the conflict and its afterlife: revisiting beloved...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 200 p. In the decades before the First World War no British institution epitomised national identity more forcefully than the monarchy, and no other institution inspired such a universal feeling of loyalty and attachment. The crown reached this position in the half-century after 1861 by giving up its residual political power to a more powerful and...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 p. A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of the prominent member of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 241 p. This text is about continuity and change in early-19th-century Britain. Against the background of an emerging industrial state, the popularization of liberal "laissez faire" principles and the rise of a class based society, it examines the revival of traditional paternal ideals and considers their influence upon the development of social...
Routledge, 2018. — 241 p. In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760–1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change. More...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 304 p. On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged. Here, for the first time, the historian Andro Linklater...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 260 p. Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain shows how liberal values reconstructed public space in Britain after the repeal of the Test and Corporations Acts (1828) and the passage of Catholic emancipation (1829). It traces the century-long process against subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles. It examines the emergence of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 192 p. Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British Royal Family. The first part of this intriguing book looks at the scandal that erupted in Regency London, just months after the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 450 p. A study of Victorian middle class culture as observed through the domestic, commercial, social and political careers of four 19th-century British businessmen. The author examines the biographies of each family over three generations and offers observations on 19th-century society.
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 224 p. A heavily illustrated journey through the first decade of the 20th century decade, the first in a series of 10 books outlining the key events of the century by best-selling author Alison Maloney. Focusing on the aftereffects of Victoria's death, the riots after Edward VII's canceled Coronation and the glories of the Edwardian age, the book...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 280 p. Overshadowed by more economically vibrant towns of the industrial north, Bristol's prospects in 1800 were far from certain. This book provides a detailed account of how Bristol was transformed by a growing population, industrial change, technological innovation and urban expansion over the course of the nineteenth century. It explores the...
Lavenham, Suffolk: Terence Dalton Limited, 1973. - 239 pgs. This is a combination of diary and letters expanded with historical narrative. Almost all the text deals with the Crimean War, in which Windham served as on the staff in the 4th Division. He played a leading role in the attack on the Redan in 1855. Of persons mentioned, the important historical figures are identified in...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 358 p. — (Short Oxford History Of The British Isles). This new eleven-volume series will span the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present. Each volume consists of essays by leading historians who focus on key issues for the period-including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture. The chapters are at once...
White Lion Publishing, 2020. — 320 p. Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house, well-kept and hospitable, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this very ordinary veneer, there was a murderous darkness at its heart. On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident, Matilda Hacker, was uncovered by chance in the coal cellar. The investigation that...
I.B. Tauris, 1999. — 189 p. The social problems accompanying industrialization and rapid urban growth provoked a widespread debate which forced education onto the political agenda, and the new ideas about teaching methods, curricula and the physical and moral care of children, developed rapidly. This study, based on records of the Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, provides an...
Clarendon Press, 1995. — 264 p. This book is concerned with the way in which the concept of the state was invoked in British political argument between 1880 and 1914. It central claim is that the decades bracketing the turn of the century witnessed a significant change in the prevailing terms of British political discourse - that the concept of the state, hitherto a relative...
Routledge, 2022. — 208 p. This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world. By exploring engagement tactics and forms of...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 256 p. The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual...
London: Atlantic Books, 2019. — 368 p. ; illus. The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when George III died...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 728 p. Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915. — 132 p. The quick glance on foreign policy of Great Britain ft the times of Edward Grey occupied the position of foreign minister.
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 319 p. Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century's first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men and women demonstrated in the early Victorian...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 263 p. During the last two decades, numerous studies have been devoted to the Victorian fascination with King Arthur, however. the figure of King Alfred has received almost no attention. For much of the nineteenth century, Alfred was as important as Arthur in the British popular imagination. A pervasive cult of the king developed which...
Robinson, 2008. — 340 p. The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society...
The History Press, 2014. — 269 p. I delight in this work," wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused." But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with family feuds, backbiting and jealousy—the...
Routledge, 1996. — 88 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). The early nineteenth century was marked by public disorder, governmental repression and correction. It was a period of revolution, reaction and reform. This pamphlet focuses on three key issues: the factors which combined to produce the turmoil and uprisings of 1812-21 and the severity with which they were put down, the validity...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 480 p. On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The "Peterloo massacre", the subject of a recent feature film...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 480 p. On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The "Peterloo massacre", the subject of a recent feature...
Routledge, 2014. — 530 p. This ambitious survey covers all aspects of the period in which English society acquired its modern shape -- industrial rather than agricultural, urban rather than rural, democratic in its institutions, and middle class rather than aristocratic in the control of political power. For this revised edition the footnotes and bibliography have been fully...
William Heinemann Ltd., 1989. — 320 p. The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of that event, one of the darkest days in Britain's social history. On 16 August 1819, a strong force of yeomanry and regular cavalry charged into a crowd of more than 100,000 workers who had gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester for a meeting about Parliamentary reform. This...
University of Rochester Press, 2019. — 314 p. England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I. By...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 336 p. Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Antislavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, ‘social purity’ advocates and more – all promoted their causes through the mobilisation of citizen volunteer support. This book sets out to explore...
Routledge, 2021. — 250 p. Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this diverse radical tradition or to the ways in which they invented their own tradition. Paine, Cobbett and...
Macmillan Education, 2009. — p. In the course of the 1920s the Liberal Party disappeared as a serious party of government, though its demise followed hard upon one of its greatest periods of success. For many years historians have struggled to make sense of this strange story, and this second edition of a classic text brings the debate right up to date. Some see the Party's...
Berghahn Books, 2020. — 542 p. Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 262 p. Making Another World Possible identifies the British contribution to the genealogy of modern green and anti-capitalist thinking by examining left libertarian ideologies in the late 19th and early 20th century Britain and highlighting their influence on present day radical thought.As capitalism heralded the triumph of technology, greater...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 340 p. The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion's socially productive role, Zachary...
Routledge, 2016. — 275 p. This title, first published in 1975, analyses the ways in which developments in Victorian universities have shaped both the structure and the assumptions of British higher education in the twentieth century. No period of British higher education has been more full of change nor so rooted in fundamental debate than the second half of the nineteenth...
Endeavour Press, 1997. — 400 p. The 7th Earl of Cardigan, the subject of this biography, is always remembered as the man who led the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. A fatal event for so many of his men, it was to rejuvenate Cardigan's life. Hitherto his career had been dogged by public scandal and professional disgrace: a failed marriage to a...
Routledge, 2018. — 348 p. First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of...
Routledge, 2017. — 338 p. This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and development of the North-South divide. Beginning with regional imbalance in the Victorian and Edwardian economies, the book goes on to discuss the effects on the First World War and its aftermath, which...
Routledge, 2014. — 230 p. By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in...
Longman, 1992. — 434 p. The Conservative party has proved to be the most successful political party in Britain since Disraeli's Reform Act of 1867 established a 'democratic' franchise in the boroughs. Yet Disraeli's attempts to reconcile the elements of what later became known as 'Tory Democracy' was judged by most Conservatives at the time to be risky, and by some to be a...
Longman, 1996. — 582 p. Richard Shannon's study of The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (the second volume chronologically in Longman's authoritative History of the Conservative Party) was published to great acclaim in 1992. Here now is its successor, covering the fortunes of the Conservative Party in the period after the death of Disraeli, under the...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1971. — 398 р. This book, "Gladstone and Ireland the Irish policy of Parliament from 1850-1894", by Eversley, G. Shaw-Lefevre Baron, is a replication of a book originally published before 1912. William Gladstone tried all he could to help Ireland and Gladstone’s name is frequently mentioned in Irish history from the 1880’s to Gladstone’s retirement...
Andrews UK, 2015. — 151 p. In the six decades between 1851 and 1914 Britain was transformed by industrialisation and empire. Her politics, society, culture and economy all underwent a radical transition. This is an Explaining History book written specifically for A level students to help them master this complex and challenging period of study. It covers: * The evolution of the...
Routledge, 2022. — 152 p. This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system. Drawing on a parallel analysis of election-time newspaper content and archived political correspondence,...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 306 p. — (The English Monarchs Series). This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving...
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 323 p. This book is an intellectual and cultural account of the growth of history as an undergraduate discipline at Oxford and Cambridge in the nineteenth century. History, the familiar centre of a broad Victorian consensus about God, country and good, provided the most consistent moral panorama able to satisfy a variety of intellectual,...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 255 p. With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi’s landmark The Great Transformation. The conventional wisdom has been that in the nineteenth century, England quickly moved toward a modern labor...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2005, -306p.
With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working classes, demonstrating that poverty increased – rather than deadened – it. She illustrates the mourning...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 344 p. Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 232 p. This book offers a new interpretation of the Conservative party’s revival and adaptation to democratic politics in the early twentieth century. We cannot appreciate the Conservatives’ unique success in British politics without exploring the dramatic cultural transformation which occurred within the party during the early decades of...
Maurice Temple Smith, 1984. — 398 p. The Chartists is a major contribution to our understanding not just of Chartism but of the whole experience of working-class people in mid-nineteenth century Britain. The book looks at who the Chartists were, what they hoped for from the political power they strove to gain, and why so many of them felt driven toward the use of physical...
New York: Vintage Books, 1966. — 848 p. Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds. Author's deeply...
Routledge, 2017. — 320 p. In this book Neville Thompson traces Wellington’s life after 1815 using then new archival and documentary records. The work examines the development of Wellington’s character and outlook, and assesses the significance of his persistent involvement in politics over three decades. It shows the Duke was a crucial figure in the development of the...
London: Routledge, 1992. - 260.
Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian, not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this classic work, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some five hundred Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use of oral history, which captures a unique record of their times. Domestics, labourers,...
Macmillan Education, 1980. — 127 p. The Standard of Living Debate. Were the Working Classes Revolutionary? Trade Unions. Laissez-Faire and State Intervention: The Economy. Laissez-Faire and State Intervention: Social Management. Education. Agriculture 1760–1900. Railways — A New Age? Depression and Decline? The British Economy 1870–1900. The New Jerusalem? The Impact of...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 267 p. Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and...
The History Press, 2011. — 325 p. What was childhood like for the princes and princesses in the Victorian and Edwardian period? Here their education, recreation and general upbringing is discussed, from Queen Victoria's isolated and lonely childhood, to the children of King George V and Queen Mary. We see glimpses of Prince Waldemar of Prussia, who enjoyed collecting fossils on...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 257 p. Born in 1765, third son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, initially had little expectation of succeeding to the British throne. A brief career in the navy, followed by several years of semi-obscurity and a liaison with the actress Dorothea Jordan that gave them a family of ten children, came to an end...
Peter Lang, 2010. — 312 p. The Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the colonial psyche, and its spectre haunted the British until the very last days of the Raj. For the past 150 years most aspects of the Uprising have been subjected to intense scrutiny by historians, yet the nature of the outbreak itself remains obscure. What was the extent of the conspiracies and...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 1194 p. Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term 'best-seller' was coined. In new and cheap editions Dickens's stories sold hugely, but these were progressively outstripped in quantity by the likes of Hall Caine...
Barnes and Noble, 2011. — 470 p. This useful 1890 firstly published work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole's masterpiece. Volume Four begins with the closing years of the reign of William IV and the accession of Queen...
Barnes and Noble, 2011. — 518 p. This useful 1890 work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole's masterpiece. The sixth and final volume begins with a chapter on the Crimean War (1853-1856); Walpole then follows up with sections on...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 188 p. In the years leading up to the First World War, the United Kingdom was subjected to a ferocious campaign of bombing and arson. Those conducting this terrorist offensive were members of the Women's Social and Political Union; better known as the suffragettes. The targets for their attacks ranged from St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England...
Gwent, South Wales: Ray Westlake Military Books, 1988. - 138 pgs. Supertitled British Army Register No. 1 . Introduced as a reorganisation of the Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces in 1908, the Territorial Force was recruited throughout England, Scotland and Wales, with units existing in not only the major cities and towns, but in smaller hamlets and villages. The purpose of this work...
A historical book. — Random House, 2007. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-44647-711-3. Audiobook: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash,...
London: Thomas Kelly, 1820. — 470 p. The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London. The plotters were betrayed. 13 were arrested by the Bow Street Runners and one peace officer was killed. The event is described in the most minute detail and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 625 p. — (Blackwell Companions to British History). A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. - Truly British, rather than English, in scope. - Pays attention to the experiences of...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 464 p. For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who...
Atlantic Books, 2009. — 298 p. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 247 p. This book provides a detailed study of the politics of the Progressive Alliance at the constituency level from its inception in 1903 to collapse during the First World War. It evaluates the character, development and difficulties of progressive co-operation and considers the long-term viability of an electoral alliance between the Liberal and...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 154 p. The Industrial Revolution brought into being a distinct world, a world of greater affluence, longevity and mobility, an urban rather than a rural world. But the great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book, published to considerable...
СПб: Издание П. В. Щапова, 1866. — 394 с. Перевод под редакцией М. А. Антоновича. В 1848-1870 годах Луи Блан (1811-1882), французский социалист, историк, журналист, политик, находился в изгнании в Великобритании. Обзору политической и социальной жизни приютившей его страны в 1861-1862 годах и были посвящены его письма-обзоры, отправляемые в газеты «Temps» (Франция), «Etoile...
СПб: Издание П. В. Щапова, 1866. — 411 с. Перевод под редакцией М. А. Антоновича. В 1848-1870 годах Луи Блан (1811-1882), французский социалист, историк, журналист, политик, находился в изгнании в Великобритании. Обзору политической и социальной жизни приютившей его страны в 1861-1862 годах и были посвящены его письма-обзоры, отправляемые в газеты «Temps» (Франция), «Etoile...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 167 с. — ISBN: 5-02-010036-6.
Британская политика на Балканах в XIX в. показана в книге через призму деятельности ведущих политиков этой страны - Дж. Каннинга, Г.Дж. Пальмерстона, королевы Виктории, Б. Дизраэли, каждый из которых был личностью своеобразной и незаурядной. Проанализированы установка британской дипломатии на сохранение статус-кво в регионе, ее...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 167 с. — ISBN: 5-02-010036-6.
Британская политика на Балканах в XIX в. показана в книге через призму деятельности ведущих политиков этой страны - Дж. Каннинга, Г.Дж. Пальмерстона, королевы Виктории, Б. Дизраэли, каждый из которых был личностью своеобразной и незаурядной. Проанализированы установка британской дипломатии на сохранение статус-кво в регионе, ее...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1911. — 207 с. Подробный справочник по британской армии, подготовленный российской военной разведкой перед первой мировой войной на основе секретных и открытых сведений.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1911. — 207 с. Подробный справочник по британской армии, подготовленный российской военной разведкой перед первой мировой войной на основе секретных и открытых сведений.
М.; Л.: Издательство Л.Д. Френкель, 1924. — 132 c. Приход к власти английской рабочей партии в начале 1924 года является фактом огромного исторического значения. Совершенно независимо от того, надолго ли удержится у власти кабинет Макдональда, и даже от того, какова будет его политика, самый факт образования рабочего правительства должен сыграть революционизирующую роль в...
СПб.: Товарищество "Знание", типография Н.Н. Клобукова, 1901. — 233 с. — (Историко-политическая библиотека). От редакции: Вводя сочинение Гиббинса «Английский народ в XIX веке» в «Историко-политическую библиотеку», мы, конечно, сознаем всю его элементарность, но мы полагаем, что читатели не пожалеют тех немногих часов, которые они потратят на ознакомление с этой небольшой работой...
СПб: Типография Морского Министерства, 1901. — 476 с. Справочник по Английскому флоту и военно-морским морским силам распределенных по доминиону. Приводятся сведения об организации флота, корабельном и людском составе, вооружении, бюджете а также некоторые общеэкономические сведения.
Переводчик: Алексей Вандам. — СПб.: Типография А. С. Суворина, 1907. — 242 с. (OCR) Из предисловия автора, французского социолога и педагога Эдмона Демолена: «Если превосходство Англо-Саксов над другими народами не провозглашается открыто, то во всяком случае оно несомненно чувствуется всеми. Недоверие, страх и нередко ненависть, питаемые к Англичанину являются лучшими...
СПб.: Типография «Слово», 1904. — 123 с. Литературные портреты английских политических деятелей (лорда Биконсфильда, Парнеля) и историков (Грина, Фримана, Актона). Лорд Биконсфильд В.Э. Гладстон Ч. Парнель Д.Р. Грин Э. Фриман Лорд Актон
М.: Изд-во ИМО, 1959. — 263 с.
В книге охватывается значительный период английской истории, связанный с промышленным переворотом и превращением Англии в «мастерскую мира», с созданием гигантской колониальной империи, с обострением классовых противоречий в стране, вылившихся в массовое движение чартистов. Особое внимание уделено рабочему движению в Англии.
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М.: Изд-во ИМО, 1959. - 264 с.
В книге охватывается значительный период английской истории, связанный с промышленным переворотом и превращением Англии в «мастерскую мира», с созданием гигантской колониальной империи, с обострением классовых противоречий в стране, вылившихся в массовое движение чартистов. Особое внимание уделено рабочему движению в Англии.
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М.: Наука, 1982. — 320 с. Что в России XIX столетия знали об Англии и ее жителях, как рисовали себе экономику, политический строй, социальные проблемы и духовную жизнь этой страны и как их оценивали? Что в этих этнических представлениях правильно отражало действительность, а что было ошибочным? Именно этому посвящена данная книга. На конкретном историческом материале...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 320 с. Что в России XIX столетия знали об Англии и ее жителях, как рисовали себе экономику, политический строй, социальные проблемы и духовную жизнь этой страны и как их оценивали? Что в этих этнических представлениях правильно отражало действительность, а что было ошибочным? Именно этому посвящена данная книга. На конкретном историческом материале раскрывается...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1961. — 132 с. Книга знакомит читателя с одной из самых замечательных страниц истории английского рабочего движения — чартизмом. Чартистское движение развернулось с середины 30-х годов XIX в. и продолжалось более двух десятилетий. Изменения, происшедшие в экономике Англии в первой половине XIX в., и прежде всего промышленный переворот, резко...
Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1961. — 132 с, без илл.
Книга знакомит читателя с одной из самых замечательных страниц истории английского рабочего движения — чартизмом. Чартистское движение развернулось с середины 30-х годов XIX в. и продолжалось более двух десятилетий. Изменения, происшедшие в экономике Англии в первой половине XIX в., и прежде всего промышленный переворот,...
Ростов-на-Дону, Таганрог: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2019. — 324 c. В учебном пособии рассматриваются историографические и теоретико-методологические аспекты процесса трансформации конституционного и конфессионального устройства, а также партийно-политической системы Великобритании первой трети XIX в. Анализируются особенности эволюции конституционного...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2013. — 320 с.: ил. — (Окно в историю). — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0819-3. Книга приоткрывает завесу над темными страницами английской истории XIX века, той самой эпохи, которая известна российским читателям по романам Джейн Остен, Чарльза Диккенса и сестер Бронте и которая не утратила своей мрачной привлекательности. В ней рассматриваются разнообразные аспекты...
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2013. — 320 с.: илл. — (Окно в историю). — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0819-3. Книга приоткрывает завесу над темными страницами английской истории XIX века, той самой эпохи, которая известна российским читателям по романам Джейн Остен, Чарльза Диккенса и сестер Бронте и которая не утратила своей мрачной привлекательности. В ней рассматриваются разнообразные аспекты...
М.: Этерна, 2014. — 344 с. Новый альбом в уникальной серии «Семейные архивы» Елены Лаврентьевой рассказывает о впечатлениях наших соотечественников, побывавших в столице туманного Альбиона. Как воспринимали Лондон русские в конце XIX – начале XX века? Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, автор собрала свидетельства из разных источников: периодических изданий, мемуаров, писем,...
Издание акционерного общества "Брокгауз-Ефрон". – СПб.: Типография акционерного общества Брокгауз - Ефрон, 1906. – 280 с.
В книге изложена политическая история Англии XIX века, когда сложились окончательно некоторые из наиболее важных конституционных традиций. Благодаря этим традициям, монархическая Англия сделалась фактически одной из наиболее замечательных демократий не по...
СПб.: Издание журнала "Русская Школа"; Типография М. А. Александрова, 1914. — 1, 3, 131, 1, [1] c. Краткое содержание: Беглый взгляд на развитие английской школы в 19-м веке. Судьбы среднего образования до 70 годов прошлого века. Средняя школа в Англии в конце 19 века. Действительность и идеалы. Реформы XX века. Министерство Народного Просвещения и его нормы. Демократизация...
Монография. — Минск: Беларуская навука, 2015. — 392 с. В книге на примере Франции, Германии и Великобритании рассматривается становление и развитие общественных институтов, их место в социально-политических системах европейских стран в хронологических границах 1815–1914 гг. Показывается место в общественной жизни предшественников политических партий – тайных обществ, клубов и...
Монография. — СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2019. — 424 с. — ISBN 978-5-89059-351-1. В монографии впервые в отечественной науке рассматривается история суфражизма и его влияние на политическую и культурную жизнь Великобритании. Автор раскрывает особенности и причины эволюции движения на протяжении трех периодов истории страны, объясняя, как его сторонницы перешли от сбора...
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